I tend to read several things at once, getting involved in a book for a while, reading it halfway through, then putting it down for the next one, which I get back to in about a year... So many books, so little time. But at the moment I am reading

The Lone Samurai: The Life of Miyamoto Musashi by William Scott Wilson (Anything about the greatest samurai ever has to be good)

Interview with A Vampire by Anne Rice (just starting on this one, but I like vampire stories)

and Troika: The Fifth Book of Indigo by Louise Cooper (I think that's the author, it's one of those that I haven't read any of for a few months, but somehow manage to remember where I am)

"Giving up is what kills people. It's only when you refuse to give up that you truly transcend your human self." Alucard, Hellsing by Kouta Hirano

Damnant quadnon intelligunt - They condemn what they do not understand.

I am currently reading Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy. I am only on the first book and need to get the second one (damn this college pocketbook). So far I like it. God I wish I had a Daemon, they would be so fun.

TheArchitect wrote:I am currently reading Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy. I am only on the first book and need to get the second one (damn this college pocketbook). So far I like it. God I wish I had a Daemon, they would be so fun.

I read those, back in the day, they are pretty good. Probably the best required reading I ever had, but that is not saying much, that book had next to zero competition.

Duke

"In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards."

--Mark Twain

He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.

--Friedrich Nietzsche

"If it turns out that there is a God, I don't think that he's evil. But the worst that you can say about him is that basically he's an underachiever."

That was required reading? DUUUUDE! All we have is "To Kill a Mockingbird" and "Lord of the Flies"! I love His Dark Materials, third one I think most people will agree is the best of 'em (it also makes a nice light snack!).

Right now I am reading "Picadilly Jim" by P.G. Wodehouse. So good, as are the rest of his... Well, I actually just really like English comedy. Douglas Adams, Terry Pratchett, P.G. Wodehouse, Monty Python... The list goes on and on!

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"The Big Bang violates the first Law of Thermodynamics!"
"So does your face!"

Cannon_Fodder wrote:That was required reading? DUUUUDE! All we have is "To Kill a Mockingbird" and "Lord of the Flies"! I love His Dark Materials, third one I think most people will agree is the best of 'em (it also makes a nice light snack!).

Right now I am reading "Picadilly Jim" by P.G. Wodehouse. So good, as are the rest of his... Well, I actually just really like English comedy. Douglas Adams, Terry Pratchett, P.G. Wodehouse, Monty Python... The list goes on and on!

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I love P.G. Wodehouse. And the rest of that stuff on your list.

I went to a cool school, you see, and we read The Chocolate War, Slaughterhouse 5 (<-----Excellent book), Dark Materials, and, of course, To Kill a Mockingbird.

Duke

"In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards."

--Mark Twain

He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.

--Friedrich Nietzsche

"If it turns out that there is a God, I don't think that he's evil. But the worst that you can say about him is that basically he's an underachiever."

I don't remember what I was required to read -- for me "required reading" is something of an oxymoron. The only one I had trouble with was Steppenwolf, by Herman Hesse. Too intense. He uses a lot of very vivid imagery, so it gave me nightmares. . . .

I really envy people who actually get educated at school, since I largely educcated myself. Idaho is not exactly a Mecca of teacher competence, especially in parochial schools.